Bedtime routines

I do bath, books, sleeping bag, final sleepy words as I put her down in the cot. We’ve done it since she was 4 months old but we also sleep trained at 4 months too.

I imagine this is probably useless information to you but just wanted to respond to your question.

For what it’s worth, you can’t really traditionally sleep train a 2 year old anyway! So don’t feel pressured too anyway!

Might be worth looking at his 24 hour sleep needs, some big body play before you start the bedtime routine to burn some energy and maybe cutting time from nap?

We do dinner then bath and pjs if its bath night, or else just wash and pjs, back down to play and read books and eat supper, then upstairs again for more books and teeth and into sleeping bag- she will either tell me she wants to go into the cot and sing herself to sleep, or tell me she wants hugs in which case I lightly rock her a little bit until shes asleep. Making sure she is definitely really tired is key for us, she needs a really long wake window.

We do pjs, supper then let him play for a little bit and he will eventually want to 'go night night' or will say yes if i suggest it.
We then to up to bed and one of us will lay with him till he falls asleep, usually if we time it right it only takes 10/15mins for him to go over - sometimes he watches his nursery rhymes for 10/15mins before he decides he wants to go to sleep - i know screen time is a no no for some people but works for us at times🙈

We do bath, pjs, books and then I turn off all the lights and we have a cuddle, while I’m sat in the chair in her room, with her in my arms. Then put her in her cot. She had a really good phase of saying ‘cot’ after a min or so of cuddling and then we had a bad phase of her saying Mummy/ Daddy cuddles and absolutely not wanting to be put down and having to fall asleep in our arms. Now I think we are back to somewhere in the middle 🤣